Removing Plastic Tile From Bathroom Wall

It may seem like too much work when you simply want a change of color.

Removing plastic tile from bathroom wall.

It takes time patience and the right tools. Our shower room needs revamping. Although you can chip away the grout by hand with small tools you are likely to damage the wall in the process. I would like to remove them and replace with beadboard.

Plastic tiles are a harder version of vinyl tiles and can be used on both floors and walls. Once you learn how to paint your plastic wall tile you can change the color any time you want. In the 50 s plastic wall tile was used in a lot of homes. We have a small bathroom that has 1970 s vintage plastic wall tiles.

Removing wall tiles is different and more difficult than removing floor tiles because wall tiles are typically set very close together with minimal grout lines. The best thing that you can do with a budget in mind is to paint the plastic wall tile into something more desirable for you. This means that it takes more care to remove a wall tile without damaging the surrounding tiles. For all you tile removers.

The ez way and professional way to replace tile isn t to take it off tile by tile. Whether you are remodeling replacing just a few rows of outdated tile or repairing a damaged tile removing bathroom tile without damaging the plaster walls can be a tricky job. Like vinyl tiles they use an adhesive that grows stronger. Can anyone tell me how these things were originally held in place.

How to remove plastic tile glue grout. Bathroom tile is installed to last applied to the wall with adhesive and topped by grout between the tiles to keep them in place. They are 4x4 size and look like regular wall tiles but they are plastic. So in this video i will show you the part 1 where i removed the bathroom tiles.

That probably isn t the best idea. Cutting the wall should only take 1 2 hours. Rather cut the sheetrock and remove the whole piece at once. Do have help available.

They appear to be individual tiles because some have been cut to. How to remove bathroom tile without damaging the plaster walls. New sheetrock greenboard is inexpensive as compared to the hours of taking tile by tile. And will the sheetrock behind them come down too.

If you want to get rid of it you might be considering removing the tile.